James Kimery

Military graveside rites will be at 2:30 p.m. MST Monday at the Santa Fe National Cemetery in Santa Fe, N.M., with the Rev. J. Bradley Bennett officiating..

Arrangements are under the direction of Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home.

He died on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2000, at Covenant Medical Hospital.

He was born on Jan. 18, 1928, in Limestone, Tenn. He married Dorothy Mapp on April 16, 1971, in Seminole. He had been a resident of Lubbock since 1999.

He was a retired Air Force master sergeant. He served 20 years and was a veteran of World War II, the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War. He was the State Adjutant Quartermaster for the Department of New Mexico's Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was also the commander-in-chief of the National Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a private pilot and a Methodist.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, Jerry of Enid, Okla., and Gerald and Keith, both of Hobbs, N.M.; a sister, Mildred Carrington of Limestone; and eight grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to the World War II Memorial, P.O. Box 96766, Washington, D.C. 20090-6766.